4 ms·
This doesn't track for me. Lots of people forecast, rightly or wrongly, events much worse then we've ever experienced: catastrophic climate change, apocalyptic
by winstonewert 3y ago
This doesn't track for me. Lots of people forecast, rightly or wrongly, events much worse then we've ever experienced: catastrophic climate change, apocalyptic nuclear war, immentiment economic collapse, etc. So no, I don't think we are somehow limited in our imagination to events that we've already observed to happen.
- cubefox 3y agoMany people respond to arguments for AI extinction risk with "that's science fiction", "that's fear-mongering", "you should instead focus on bias & misinformation in the here and now", etc. These "counterarguments" seem to be often motivated by the inability to imagine such a big catastrophy as it exceeds the previous ones.
- ggm 3y agoI think you are both in a semantic linguistic argument. If person a and b are in dispute about topic c, then definitionally they can both hold concept c in their head as a named concept. When somebody says "that's inconceivable" they mean something figuratively not literally.